The meeting took place on the 23rd of September 2015 in regards to memorandum about cooperation between the Czech School Inspectorate and the Public Defender of Rights. I was a regular yearly discussion between the Chief School Inspector Tomáš Zatloukal and the Public Defender of Rights Anna Šabatová. The topic of the discussion was to evaluate the recent cooperation in the field of promotion and control of rights towards equal access to education and with this related activities. The fruitful discussion was also about recent cases which are being dealt with by ...

On 5-7th November 2018, the 46th PISA Governing Board (PGB) was held in Prague, attended by not less than 150 delegates from more than 70 countries and economics including OECD and European Commission representatives.  The joint committee was organised and hosted by the Czech School Inspectorate, the institution responsible for implementing international student performance assessments in the Czech Republic since 2011.

Between 17 and 21 February 2014 the CSI received a five-member delegation of French inspectors and experts of Académie de Nantes. The Department of Public Relations and Innovations of CSI organized for them visits in six types of secondary schools (vocational schools, secondary general schools, including public and private schools) in Prague, Pribram and in Mlada Boleslav   The study visit participants were officially welcomed at the Headquarters of the CSI with the participation of Mr. Gérard Enjolras, Attaché for Cooperation in French Language, French Institute ...

On October 1, 2014, Marcel Chládek, the Minister for Education, Youth and Sports, together with Tomáš Zatloukal, the Chief School Inspector, officially introduced a new information system designed to present schools towards public – InspIS PORTÁL.  

In September 2014 the Czech School Inspectorate in cooperation with experts from the Charles University in Prague elaborated more detailed analyses of international surveys PIRLS 2011, TIMSS 2011 and PISA 2012. Analyses of results from surveys PIRLS 2011 and TIMSS 2011 were focused on differences in results between individual schools and classes on the first stage of elementary schools, furthermore the focus was on the social factors in achieved results as well as on outcome differences between boys and girls. Moreover, popularity of reading and math among pupils in fourth grades and ...

During the 19th – 21st November a SICI workshop entitled „Go With the Data Flow: Connoisseurship of the Inspectors“ took place in Belgian Antwerp. The Czech School Inspectorate was presenting the inspection information system InspIS DATA. Beside data collection and evaluation this system enables to plan inspection activities, personal and non-personal resources including process management and monitoring. The Czech IT system InspIS DATA presentation was positively accepted by the participants of the seminar. The school inspectors from different countries namely ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, the Deputy Chief School Inspector Ondrej Andrys hosted a delegation of representatives from the Institute for Analyses in Education of the Ukraine Republic, headed by the institute’s director Oksana Denysiuk. Main topics of the meeting were presentations of findings and experience of the Czech School Inspectorate from international surveys. In more detail the debate was about pupils’ outcomes from PISA, PIRLS, TIMSS, ICILS and TALIS and the role of these surveys in the framework of complex depiction of quality and effectivity in education ...

On Wednesday the 29th of March 2017 the Czech School Inspectorate together with the Standing International Conference of Inspectorates organized a seminar aimed at analyses and survey of educational results by institutions that are responsible for inspection activities in schools. Participants of the international seminar were employees of inspection authorities, policy makers, researches and education professionals. All together there were almost 70 guests present from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, France, Portugal, Germany, Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, Estonia ...

The 7th international IEA conference (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) took place in Prague during 26 – 30 June 2017. The conference was organized in cooperation of Pedagogic Faculty, Charles University and the Czech School Inspectorate. Key topics of the conference were methodology of the international surveys, their outcomes and interpretation of data collected within the surveys TIMSS, PIRLS, ICILS and ICCS. The conference was attended by 180 participants from more than 40 countries around the World.